The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 16, 1904, Page 3

THE SAN FR ANCISCO CALL, TU. SDAY, AUGUST 16, 1904. RUSSIAN SHIPS AGAIN DASH OUT OF PORT ARTHUR HARBOR CHEFU, August 16, 2 p. m.-—-The Russian ships at Port Arthur made a sortie early to-day. sued by the Japanese. A severe engagement is expected. — They are now being pur- ERRING WOMAN IN THE TOILS Grace McNaughton, Robbed Her Mistress, Cap-| tured by Los Angeles Police SHE IS SERIOUSLY ILL Will Be Brought Back to Oakland to Answer Crime Soon as Health Permits e LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15.—Grace Mc- Naughton nted Oekland on a v, was arrested at the request of the Oak- ities and will be held until T Practh nothing lars of ung woman, al- een searching eriously ill, the ding to a po- L being a erim- had been pe E from which d he came to had rges her s placed i Hempst means of lice located S .. CHINESE BANDITS ACTIVE. 15.—Chinese ban- up a portion of the south of Liaoyang. paired in a few hours. bandits have been ang for firing upon during which two dra- inded Aug. 15. — The Chinese Kitsuham, Tulisan and with 1000 followers, are \intin district, moving River Vailey with the ob- g the raflway. Each of ich were organized by anied by 100 Japa- ed gun: MILK CONDENSINGC° 0 ORICINLT * Vi = FoORATEDC is @ guarantee of the purity and richness of our Pet Brand Evaporated Gream We offer $5,000 reward to anyone able to prove adulteration of our product. Dr. Lyon's PERFECT Tooth Powder AN ELEGANT TOILET LUXURY Used by people of refinement for over a quarter of a century PREPARED BY S cgma. 23S Who| /STOESSEL | IS DOOMED Japanese Pressing | Terrific Attack | | | On Port Arthur e Capture Positions and Guns Close to City's Walls | Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1004, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. CHEFU. Aug. 15.—That a general land and naval attack was made on Port Arthur to-day is indicated by in- formation from various sources. The | statement that the naval attack was made at 4 o'clock in the morning comes | from an authoritative, but not diplo- matic, quarter. | Junk | the s which arrived here to-day say panes recently occupied the Liauti hills and Sushiyven, which is two or three miles north of the fortr Five warst and s seven boat destroyvers, according to the junks, | rned to Port Arthur on the night of August 10. s who ¢ ed here to-day, having left Port Arthur on August 12, brought reports that the Japanese oc- cupied new [ »us on that day. The ring at Port Arthur was heavy, but intermittent, and indicated that the ults were being continued The sians at Port nheart The men who came in on the junks declare that the commander of the | Japanese fleet before Port Arthur in- formed the Russian commander of the place that if the warships which re- turned to the harbor after the sortie of August 10 were sunk by the Rus- jans the Japanese would shell the town with lyddite. A Chinese who has arrived here from Liaoyang declares that the casualties in the recent fighti in that vicinity | have been enc s ST. PETERSBUR Aug. 1 Re ports ran through town during the day that Admiral Togo was dead and that Port Arthur had surrendered. The pa- pers here are trying to keep up excite- rthur are reported Port Arthur occupies the public to the exclusion of all else. It is ful | realized that the capture of the fort | is possible at any time | of the fleet, including even the hospital | ship, was Genel ressel’s signal that | the supreme moment of the defenders was imminent. Public opinion is being prepared by being reminded constan f the overwhelming force of the Jar nese, who are continually being forced, whe s Russia can neith | replace the men killed nor the ammu- nition expended. The Japanese have 100,000 rs and 450 guns, of which fifty are mortars. The people are re- | minded that the fall of Port Arthur will | in no wise affect Russia's i regards the campaign and will have no decisive effect on the result of the war. DETAILS OF ¥ FIGHTING. | St. Petersburz Receives Reports From Alexieffl and Stoessel. | ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 15.—The | Emperor has received the following dis- patch from Viceroy Alexieff, dated | August 13: | *According to a report from Port Ar- thur on August 10 the Japanese at- | tacked Taku and Siachou mountains in enormous force during the night of August 9 and occupied them after fif- teen hours’ fighting on the night of August 10. During a heavy rainstorm | the Japanese attacked our east front, | but were repulsed at all points. They also attacked simultaneously our whole front from Wolf Hills to Taku Moun- tain, but everywhere were driven back. The fortress has been bombarded from the east gide for four days.” The War Office to-day received a message from Port Arthur in which General Stoessel, under date of August 11, reports a successful repulse of a general asault on the Russian outer positions during the night following the departure of the Russian squadron. He does not mention a naval engagement or refer to the return of the warships. The Admiralty s received a tele- gram from Captain Matousevitch of the Cesarevitch, now at Tsingchou, saying he is recovering and that he has received a visit on board the Cesare- vitch from a Prussian Prince, who came in behalf of the German navy to salute their brave Russian comrades. —— COALS OF FIRE. HEAPING Japap Repays Russian Cruelty With an Act of Mercy. TOKIO, Aug. 16.—The Japanese gen- erally are comparing the treatment ac- corded to the crew of the Rurik toythat accorded by the Vladivostok squadron to those on board the transport Hita- chi, which the squadron sank on June 15 during its first raid. A prominent official said to-day: ¥Japan has avenged the Hitachi. Ad- miral Kamimura rescued and succored those who aided in sinking the Hitachi and who sailed away from hundreds of drowning victims. We offer their liv- ing for our dead. BEAFE I, RUSSIAN BATTERIES CAPTURED. | Japanese Are Close to the Inner For- tifications of the City. BERLIN, Aug. 15.—A dispatch to the { Lokal Anzeiger from Tokio, dated to- iday, confirms fighting has occurred at Port Arthur during the past few days. The Japa- | nese captured three Russian batteries { and secured positions close to the inner fortifications. BotH sides lost heavily. The Japancse have commenced a bom- | bardment from Lang Mountain on the harbor and inner defenses, S ADMIRAL SAH CHAGRINED. Tenders His Resignation to the Pe- king Government. CHEFU, Aug. 15. Chinese commander concerned in the Ryeshitelni affair, was so chagrined at the turn of affairs and his own fail- ure to prevent the action of the Jap- anese boats that he sent in his resig- nation to Peking. The authorities there, however, refused to acceot the resignation. torpedo | The departure tion as | the report that heavy | BALTIC SQUADRON RECEIVES ORDERS TO SAIL FOR EAST) |Admiral Togo Re- _— - Some of the Vessels Have Already Started From Kron- stadt and It Is Announced That They Will Meet Colliers in the Vicinity of the Cape of Good Hope ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 15.—The | cruiser division of the Baltic squadron has received sailing orders. Some of | the vessels have already left Kronstadt and others, including the Oleg, will leave in a few day The division m1 | 8o around the Cape of Good Hope, | where it will meet colliers. The battieship division is awaiting | the completion of the repairs to the | Orel, and is not likely to start for a | week or a fortnight. Orders have been issued that all tor- pedo-boats and destroyers of the sec- ond division shall be coaled to full ca pacity. The boats are to await furthe orders in the small roadstead at Kron- | stadt. Shore liberty on all vessels has been curtailed after sunset. Sl A STRENGTH OF BALTIC FLEET. War Vessels That the Czar Has Or- dered to Oriental Waters, Following right on the heels of the several naval engagements in Far East- ern waters, reports of which yet leave doubt as to the fate or fighting effi- ciency of several of the best ships of the Pacific division of his lately proud navy, Czar Nicholas has given the or- der for the Baltic fleet to sail for the scene of action. It is, perhaps, with the hope of retrieving lost ground and fallen prestige; but only in trusting to remote chances of war can this ac- tion, based on such a hope, be justified. With three or four exceptions as to the larger fighting vessely’ now about to depart from the Baltic, the flower of Russia’s navy was already in the Orient. It has already met the enemy in several cooflicts and sustained hon- orable defeat, with serious loss, If not practical arnihilation. Chance of war and elements may, however, yet favor the effort, and even | the prolonged uncertainty of the final outcome, as affecting the supplies of food and war materials for her enemy, will count for Russia in the immediate future and the yet undated end of the | sreat struggle. Just what vessels will actually con- ( stitute the Baltic fleet now about to | sail is nearly as much of an uncer- tainty as what vessels are available of the fine fleet that was on the scene at the beginning of the war. The fleet sails in two divisions, with Rear Admiral Razhdestvinsky in chief comman®. It consists of two divisions —battleship and cruiser—with smaller vessels, colliers and torpedo craft ap- } portioned to each. Rear Admiral Enkvist is in com- mand of the cruiser division, which is expected to =ail first, and Rear Ad- miral von Felkersan of the battleship division. The battleship Imperator Alexander I1I is by far the most powerful vesse of the squadron and is one of Russia's newest ships. dino class and was launched on the Neva in August, 1901, and is of 13,516 tons displacement. She was designed for 18 knots speed, with 16,800 indicated horsepower and coal capacity of 1250 tons, equal to 8500 miles, steaming at The Alexander IIT is a twin screw battleship, 397 feet over all, of 76 feet beam and 26 feet draught, which would give =o trouble in getting through the Suez Canal. She has a complete belt of Krupp steel, four inches thick at each end and nine inches thick amid- ships, with a protective deck and splin- ter deck and Krupp steel bulkheads. She belongs to the Boro- | [ | i | {111 | | | Admiral Sah, the | 10 knots, or 3000 miles at full speed. | i {are a number of smaller ones, whose = l Chinese Government a strong note, charging it with complicity in the Rye- shitelni affair, charging the Chinese commodore with cowardice or treason and demanding a full explanation, the restoration of the destroyer and severe punishment of the commodore. The Chinese Government has demanded from the Japanese the restoration of the destroyer.” LONDON, Aug. 15.—The final Cabinet Council of the Parliamentary session was held this afternoon at the Foreign Office and gave particular attention to the question of the neutrality of China and British action on the Russian re- ply to the Knight Commander repre- sentations. After the council closed the emphatic statement was made that Great Brit- She has four 12-inch guns (firing pound shells) in her main turret which are protected by 11-inch armor, anua twelve 6-inch quic in secondary turrets of the rers in pairs inch steel on bow, beam and qu there are on board quickfirer: in o 3-pounders and eight , with six torpedo tubes. The Alex- | nder IIl's complement number 740 and her broadside weight of metal is | pounds. Captain Bukhvostoff | commands the Imperator Alexander twenty semate: der bya is a new first-class bat- aunched at the new Admiralt 5 Petersburg, on November 8, She is a sister ship to the Pol- and Peresviet (both at Port Ar- , and is of 12,674 tons displace- ment and 14,500 horsepower, designed to give her 18 knots speed. The Sissoi Veliky (Sissoi the Great) is an old ship and of another type. She is ten years old, having been launched in June, 1804. She is a second-class battleship of 8880 tons. The Navarin goes back farther still in date and is as a fighting craft siderably slower and weaker. She was launched as long ago as 1891 and is of 9500 tons displacement and 9000 horse- | G2 power, with a highest possible speed of | 15 knots. The Navarin carries six tor- pedo tubes. She is manned by 630 of- ficers and men. The Boridino, Kniaz Suvaroff and Slava, the first of the same class as the Imperator Alexander III, will doubtless sail also. The Aurora is a first-class protected cruiser, built in 1900, of 6600 tons and 20 knots speed, mounting eight 6-inch, | twenty-two 3-inch and eight smaller | quickfirers and fitted with four torpedo tubes. She is a sister ship of the Diana and Pallada. The Svietlana is a small twin screw protected crulger of 3823 tons displace- ment, built at Havre in 1896. Her coal capacity is 4000 tons, equal to 7000 miles at ten knots. For protection she has only deck armor of Creusot steel, from 9 to 1.7 inches thick. The Admiral Nakhimoff is an ar- mored cruiser of 7782 tons. She goes back to 1885 for the date of her launch. The Dmitri Donskoi was originally one of the Admiral Virenius’ squadron. She is one of the earlier Russian cruis- ers, built under the great naval pro- gramme that Russia initiated after the Berlin Congress. The Dmitri Donskol, launched in 1883, is a ship of 5900 tons. The Almaz is really a dispatch ves- sel, or an Fxcemlnnslly armed emer- gency o ler. Her displacement is 6250 tons and engine power 18,000 (in- dicated), giving her 23 knots at full speed. Other cruisers not yet named will prehably be with this division. , Besides these principal vessels there names and number are as yet not known generally. A rendezvous for the whole fleet has doubtless been selected already, in near approach to the war zone, where coal and provi- sions will be in waiting to recuperate the men and put the vessels in good condition for the inevitable conflict fhat awalts them. CHINA TAKES ACTION. Pemands That Japan Restore the Rus- sian Destrover Ryeshitelni. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—American Minister Conger, at Peking, has cabled to the State Department under to-day’s date as follows: “The Russian Minister has sent the 1-poun- | | N LS OF THE FLEET AND NAVAL OFFICERS WHO WILL BE IN COMMAND. | ain feels it absolutely essential to her own interests and those of the entire world that the neutrality of China shall be observed by the two belligerents. | eat Britain will make earnest efforts secure this result. In connection with the Knight Com- mander case the British Government will instruct Emb; Hardinge that it cannot admit the contention that the steamship was rightfully sunk, and will insist that there was no justification in international law for her struction. The British note will be couched in the most conciliatory tone and it is fully expected in Cabinet cir- cles that the question will be adjusted 1ssia paying an adequate indem- PETERSBURG, Aug. 15.—Teo- sue of the Novoe Vremya com- ironically upon a telegram from hington saving the United States is unable to do more than lend moral support in preserving the neutrality of China. The paper decla that, after having been_jhe first to avow a deter- mination to arantee China's neutral integrity, now that there is necessity of action, in connection with the Rye- shitelni affair at Chefu, all the Ameri- can promises “‘evaporate and are found to have been made up of nothing but mere words."” CHEFU, Aug. 15.—It i¢ reported here from Port Dzlny that in the cap- ture in this port of the Russian torpedo boat destroyer Ryeshitel the Jay anese lost one petty officer killed. fo men seriously and nine men slightly wounded. FE RS TWO DESTROYERS AGROUND. | British Save the Crews of Stranded | Russian War Craft. CHEFU, Aug. 15.—Two Russian de- stroyers, instead of one, ran aground near Weihaiwei. It is believed that their own officers purposely ran them ashore to prevent their falling into the | hands of the Japanese. The officers made their way on foot to the British station at Weihaiwei and requested the British authorities there to save the crews. Sixty men were rescued by the British and will be sent to Hong- kong. ! The Japanese Consul here is hold- ing all Japanese ships under the Jap- anese flag or charter until further or- ders. g NOVIK REPORTED SUNK. Unconfirmed Rumor of Disaster to the Russian Cruiser. CHEFU, Aug. 15—An unconfirmed : report which has reached here from Tsingchou says the Russian cruiser Novik, which put into Tsingchou after the battle of August 10 off Port Ar- thur and which coaled there and put to sea within her twenty-four hours limit, has been sunk forty miles from Tsingchou. e — We want hope, we want encouragement. Speak of good things. Tell your friends of th value of *'Old Gilt Edge Whiskey'" as a stimu- lant if they look all run down. Wholesale at 29-31 Battery at., 5. F. Wichman, Lutgen&Co.* | SAYS SLAV SHIP SANK Probable of Pallada e ports Loss Kamimura Details Fight With Vla- divostok Fleet TOKIO, Aug. 18.—Admiral Togo re- ports that it appears certain that a vessel of the type of the protected cruiser Pallada was torpedoed and sunk in the engagement of August 10. Admiral Kamimura, in his detailed report of last Sunday’s victory over the Vliadivostok squadron, says: ‘At dawn on.Sunday morning armored cruisers Idzumo, Captain chi; the Adzuma, Captamn Fujii; Tokiwa, Captain Yoshimatsu, and the Iwate, Captain Taketomi, while en- gaged In a search off Ulsan, Korea, discovered three of the Vladivostok squadron steaming southward. Seeing us, the enemy egdeavored to flee north- ward. We immediately closed their re- treat. the Iji- the “The engagement opened at 5:23 a. | m. The Rurik, being the slowest of the enemy’'s vessels, was constantly left behind and she formed a target for our Incessant fire. The Rossia and the Gromoboi gallantly attempted several times to protect the Rurik. They fre- quently returned to the Rurik and when united the .three advanced to- gether. Our fleet thus had the advan- tage, pouring its fire from a forma- tion in the shape of the letter T. The enemy’s ships were seen to be on fire several times, showing thereby that they were heavily damaged. “The Rurik was finally disabled and her fire weakened. She began lower- ing in the water, listing to port. The Rossia and Gromoboi finally aban- doned the Rurik. “Just then “Bur fourth detachment, consisting of the protected cruisers Naniwa, Captain Wada, and the Ta- kashiho, Captain Mori, arrived and at- tacked the Rurik, while our squadron pursued the Rossia and Gromoboi. Severe fighting continued for five hours. The Rossia and Gromoboi escaped to the northward at full speed. “At 10:19 a. m. our squadron changed its course to starboard ana went south in search of the Rurik. In the meantime the Rurik had been sunk. Our ships steamed over the locality and succeeded in saving 600 members of the Rurik's crew. Our damage was not serious. The spirit of our men was excellen Admiral Kamimura was on the Id- zumo and Vice Admiral Uriu com- manded the fourth detachment. LT N PREPARING FOR A RETREAT. BERLIN, the . Lokal Aug. 16. — A dispatch to Anzeiger from Liaoyang indicates a .belief in ‘the retirement farther north of the Russian army. The dispatch says that the Russo- Chinese Bank at Liaoyang is preparing to remove to Tielinghaien, and that the bank at Mukden is apparently about to close. The authorities, the dispatch says, have heard that 1200 Chinese bandits are preparing to sack Liaoyang as soon as it is evacuated by the Russians. The Liaoyvang correspondent of the Tageblatt estimates that the Japanese forces in the field number 320,000 men, of whom 100,000 are now in front of Port Arthur. - Washington Hears of Naval Battle. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—The State Department has received a dispatch | from Chefu to the effect that it is re- ported there that a general naval bat- tle at Port Arthur was begun at dawn to-day. e SRR Japan Loses a Noted Strategist. LONDON, Aug. 15.—The Toklo cor- respondent of the Times says that Count Kawamura is dead. He was re- garded as the father of the Japanese army. VETERANS HEAR " BUCLES NOTES | Thirty-Eighth Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republie Formally Opened i, VAST CROWD IN B( | TON Hub’s Streets Gayly Deco- rated in Honor of the Sur- vivors of Four Years’” War . 15.—For the thirty- eighth time since the Civil War the survivinng veterans who fought in the Union army assembled to-day in an- nual encampment, gathering in Bos- ton. The encampment of the veter ans, as well as of the subsidiary or- ganizations, including the National Woman's Reliet Corps, the National Daughters of Veterans, the National Sons of Veterans and other organiza- tions, was formally opened to-day. The American flag was seen every= where and red, white and blue bunt- ing was shown from the fronts of busi- ness houses, hotels, theaters, newspa- per offices and residences, from one end of the city to the other. There were fifteen ents scheduled for to- lay, principal of which was the pa- | rade of the Union ex-prisoners of war, Massachusetts Naval Brigade, jackies and marines from the warships in Bos- ton barbor, and others. Of this pa- rade the men of the Grand Army of the Republic were to be spectators. Their own big parade is to be held on Tuesday, with business sessions later in the week. Commander in Chief John Ci Black of the Grand Army to-day assumed active command of the great encamp- ment. A conservative estimate of the people in this city on account of the encampment placed the number at 100,000, with the likelihood of another hundred thousand for the veterans' parade to-morrow. To-day’'s parade was scheduled to move at 12 o'clock. The chief marshal | was Captain Don Read, U N. The | parade started from the corner of Com- monwealth avenue and Arlington street and passed through the prineci= pal down town streets. | At the State House, where the deco= rations are particularly appropriate |and beautiful, the column vas re- | viewed by Governor n L. Bates, | with members of his staff. At the | City Hall Mayor Patrick A. Colling and the C! Council reviewed the | sailors and the vete while the | procession assed in w befors | Chief Marshal Read at corner of Beacon and Cha One of the s of the day was a reception which Governor | Bates held in honor of a party of dis- | tiv guished putherners, all ex-Con- federate officers, who | the encampment y of Atlanta, Ga an Confederates, expr he deep | gratification that exists through the | South with the friendly act of a { Nerthern Grand Army Post (Edwara Kinsley No. 13 of Boston) in inviting himself and comrades come and break bread with them during the en- campment. | The annual convention of the Na- tional Army Nu 3 ociation, with the president, Mrs. Addie Ballou of San Francisco, in the chair, was held in Tremont Temple to-day The convention adopted as its of- | ficial emblem a badge designed by | Mrs. Ballou, a medallion representing a nurse caring for a wounded soldier, ! with the words “Civil War”* above ana | below. 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